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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: scorpion9 on February 02, 2012, 03:02 am

Title: Time for new URL?
Post by: scorpion9 on February 02, 2012, 03:02 am
Just a thought,
since a lot of people are having hard times logging in on to the site, would changing the url help? The new URL could be posted here on the forum. Whats your opinion?
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: cindylove on February 02, 2012, 03:18 am
It was changed twice before and only causes confusion in my opinion.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: Scot Walker on February 02, 2012, 03:28 am
Has everyone who is having trouble getting on upgraded their Tor? I haden't, and I was having problems getting on. I just upgraded, and got on immediately. Just a thought.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: Chester on February 02, 2012, 03:29 am
why is it so dam hard to get on

first thing you do is press the get new identity button
and after about 20 times you might get on

so hows a new person testing the dark net waters supposed to know this

their not, thats my point
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: Scot Walker on February 02, 2012, 03:37 am
why is it so dam hard to get on

first thing you do is press the get new identity button
and after about 20 times you might get on

so hows a new person testing the dark net waters supposed to know this

their not, thats my point

I've been having trouble the last few days, and tonight I decided to finally upgrade Tor, and got right on, and it seems to be faster now too. Make sure you are running the newest version of Tor!
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: scorpion9 on February 02, 2012, 03:41 am
It was changed twice before and only causes confusion in my opinion.
That might be true but it's not hard to change a bookmark. Changing the URL would make the connection to the site faster.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: supersecretsquirrel on February 02, 2012, 04:02 am
That might be true but it's not hard to change a bookmark. Changing the URL would make the connection to the site faster.

That will only be temporary. Once all the users learn about the new URL, we'll see the same kind of issues as we're seeing now.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: Marceline on February 02, 2012, 04:09 am
I'm running the newest version of tor and haven't been able to get on today but I could yesterday when a lot of other people were having problems... seems to be a lottery. Also, changing the URL wouldn't help so there's no point.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: SpoonyBard on February 02, 2012, 04:10 am
I don't think it matters, because the .onion address doesn't have anything directly to do with the site's location. It's a hashed fingerprint of a public key, which is then used to sign the information needed to find the site. If I read Tor's hidden service overview (http://"https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en") correctly, that same key could be used to sign a different set of entry points if they wanted to reboot the routing to the service. (Assuming edits can be made to the distributed hash table, which I'm not sure about.)

I have no idea how hard it was for Silk and co. to come up with a key pair that somehow hashed to an address that started with "silkroad." But I'll bet they're silly proud of it and wouldn't change it if they don't have to.
Title: Re: Time for new URL?
Post by: blueangel on February 02, 2012, 04:42 am
I don't think it matters, because the .onion address doesn't have anything directly to do with the site's location. It's a hashed fingerprint of a public key, which is then used to sign the information needed to find the site. If I read Tor's hidden service overview (http://"https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en") correctly, that same key could be used to sign a different set of entry points if they wanted to reboot the routing to the service. (Assuming edits can be made to the distributed hash table, which I'm not sure about.)

I have no idea how hard it was for Silk and co. to come up with a key pair that somehow hashed to an address that started with "silkroad." But I'll bet they're silly proud of it and wouldn't change it if they don't have to.

There is a program that generates these, the first 8 characters can be found in about a month.

hxxps://github.com/katmagic/Shallot